Who hasn’t experienced a night of unbridled madness? Those late summer evenings when it starts to get cold and feeling the air, finally a little cooler, on your bare skin has never been so good. Those dark winter nights when you wander around the city going nowhere. Those moments when you are in company, when you feel light and free and the fears, doubts and fragilities of youth disappear as if by magic.
Capturing these moments and states of mind is an arduous task. Michael Donovan has decided to do it through images. 

Based in Los Angeles, Michael Donovan works between photography, fashion and art. New York and Los Angeles are the backdrop for stories of youth, of which he captures fleeting moments that have the power to encapsulate all the emotions of that period of life. 

At times, the cityscape gives way to endless landscapes where nature frames the naked bodies of young people who seem to have found their place in the world and who give us the feeling that everything is finally in its right place. 

To further emphasise this sense of detachment from reality and how these moments are almost part of a parallel world, Michael Donovan plays with light and colour, exaggerating and sometimes distorting them. What Donovan has created is a tale of a youth that – although it is not our own – we are nostalgic for. 

Find out more on his Instagram profile and on his website.